About Reginald Hobbs
Lived 1908 – 1977 (aged 68–69). Reginald Hobbs was a British rugby union player and military personnel.
Major-General Reginald Geoffrey Stirling Hobbs, (8 August 1908 − 7 November 1977) was a British Army officer who served as Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst from 1954 to 1957.
Early life Hobbs was the eldest son of Brigadier General Reginald Francis Arthur Hobbs and Frances Graham Stirling, daughter of Sir William Stirling. His brothers, Major Peter Graham Hobbs (1911–1942) and Lieutenant Colonel William Paul Hobbs (1914–1943), were both killed in action in the Second World War.
Military career Hobbs was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1928. He played rugby for England against South Africa at Twickenham in 1932, and then served in India.
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Who was Reginald Hobbs?
British Army general
When was Reginald Hobbs born?
Reginald Hobbs was born on 8 August 1908 in Elham.
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Reginald Hobbs died in 1977 in Bromley.
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Reginald Hobbs was a rugby union player and military personnel.
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Reginald Hobbs was British.
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